2m in jail

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Feb 15 15:32:03 PST 2000



> >
>> Guardian (London) - February 15, 2000
>>
>> Anger grows as US jails its two millionth inmate
>> The land of the free is now home to 25% of the world's prison population
>>
>> Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
>
> any ref's to people addressing the impact of this incarceration
>rate on unemployment figures? both in terms of removing people from the
>labor force and in the impact of prison jobs.

Larry Katz and Alan Krueger estimate the increase in imprisonment since the 1960s as knocking 0.3% to 0.4% off of the officially-measured unemployment rate...

Brad DeLong



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